2002
- The Jury
In 2002 the jury of the Dirk Vandersypen Award consisted of
Leo De Bock (°1959)
was chairman of the 2002 Dirk Vandersypen Award jury. For
years he was a documentary filmmaker and jury member at
numerous festivals. Before moving to the news department he
was channel manager of Canvas and Ketnet, the second
television channel of VRT. Presently he is leading Kanakna,
a TV production company.
Anna
Van der Wee, with
degrees in Criminology and Political and Social Sciences at
Leuven University, started her career at Leuven University
in the department of Criminology. After serving as an
attaché to the Minister of Social Affairs and Culture of
the Brussels Region, she became a journalist. She reported
on social and cultural issues for various magazines around
the world such as Playboy, Humo, Intermediair and New Art
in Europe. Her books include 'Growing in Life - Time' and a
self-help manual on how to cope with ageing. Van der Wee
now heads Wild Heart Productions in Brussels, Belgium, an
audiovisual production company she founded in 1994 in
Montreal, Canada. She is an accomplished multi-award
winning director and producer. Her documentaries include
'The dead are Alive. Rwanda, an eyewitness account’.
'Power of the North', 'Seeing is Believing', ‘The Man
who wanted to classify the World'.
Between 1997 and 2001 Van der Wee was the Series Editor for
a monthly 30-minute television magazine that Wild Heart
Productions produced together with UK-based Worldwide
Pictures for the European Commission. The magazine series
was distributed to broadcasters in 170 countries.
André Vermeulen (°1955)
was head of the Belgian department of S.O.S. World Trade
(1980 - '84), nowadays known as the Fair Trade
Organisation. In 1984 he started working as a journalist at
the VRT television news department. He is 'first in line'
for Latin America there, and reports regularly on the
region in VRT television news.
Carine
Bratzlavsky was born
in in 1960. A qualified translator (English-Dutch, with a
rudimentary knowledge of Russian and German), she started
to work at the RTBF as a translator (1983 - '87). In charge
of planning Télé21’s cultural programmes, she was a
key staff member. She was awarded the "Cockerel Prize" of
the French Community public broadcasting corporation: a
beautiful swan-song the day before Télé21 disappeared.
Bratzlavsky then was put in charge of what would be called
Arte 21. In 1994 she set up Arte Belgique, and she stayed
there until November 2001. Approximately 80 hours of
programmes were co-produced costing some 30 million EURO.
All genres were mixed together: documentaries, fiction,
drama, as well as thematic evenings and shows. In November
2001, she was selected as coordinator of RTBF’s
second channel La Deux, which went on air for the first
time on September 2, 2002.
